"In larger part, the sleepwalking Clinton administration was just a reflection
of the emptiness of the Nineties, with its assumption that history was over
and all that remained was the tidying up. The country had simply fallen back
into its traditional, perilous forgetfulness. Which seems to precede every
December 7th and September 11th." -- Paul Greenberg

"This country is in the midst of its second civil war. It only differs
from the first civil war in that it is, thank God, non-violent. But the passions
are as deep, and the stakes are just as high. Among the stakes is whether America
will remain a Judeo-Christian country with a secular government or become a
secular country with a secular government. Organizations such as the ACLU (and
your local university) devote massive funds and effort to changing the nature
of this country; and with the help of like-minded judges, often prevail. That
the ACLU would write a letter protesting three little plaques at the Grand
Canyon with verses from the book of Psalms provides a clear example of how
intent the organization is on destroying the Judeo-Christian moral foundations
of this society. This, after all, is the same ACLU that went to court in Florida
to protect a Muslim woman's right to be photographed for her driver's license
ID wearing a veil! If it ain't Judeo-Christian, the ACLU is a big fan of religion." --
Dennis Prager

"...Republicans don't run for elective offices for the sake of holding
elective offices. We don't get elected to be something; we get elected to do
something. And my fellow committee members, we have much more to do. For this
is not just a critical moment in the history of our party, it is a critical
moment in the history of our nation. The United States, the heroic members
of our Armed Forces, and much of the free world continues to wage a war against
terror. We are now constantly vigilant against a cowardly and stealthy enemy
who seeks to strike our allies and us where we live and where we work. We must
root them out of their shadowy training camps across the world, and we must
strengthen our homeland security in the U.S." -- Ed Gillespie

"If you're a jihadist in Iraq, and watching al-Jazeera TV and seeing
the ongoing debate between the American Republicans and the Democrats, primarily
with the leadership of Governor Dean suggesting the current approach to Iraq
is all wrong, that is only going to fuel the enthusiasm and tenacity of those
resisting and hoping for a resurrection of the Ba'ath Party." -- Robert
Maginnis

"Conservatives and libertarians who once viewed the judiciary as the
final bulwark against government tyranny must now accept that no branch of
government even remotely performs its constitutional role. ...It's time for
the executive and legislative branches to show some backbone, appoint judges
who follow the Constitution, and remove those who do not." -- Ron Paul

"Liberals observe certain flaws in human nature that make them distrust
the spontaneous order; compassionate conservatives recognize that these same
flaws are present in political authorities and can just as easily doom government
solutions to problems." -- W. James Antle III

"Thinking isn't
always the strong suit of either the Left or the Right. And thinking is our
best weapon
in the war on terror." -- Lou Dobbs

"The societies of 'Old Europe' remind Americans of the Arab Street. Preferring
comforting delusions to challenging realities, Europeans talk a great deal,
do very little, and blame the United States for homegrown ills." -- Ralph
Peters

"...[B]ecause we are products of an affluent and leisured West,
we have a special burden to remember how tenuous and fragile civilization
remains outside our suburbs." -- Victor Davis Hanson

"Too many Americans live by Republican principles of faith, family, hope
and opportunity, but vote for Democrats out of sheer habit." -- J.C. Watts

"How many candidates are there? Nine, ten? I could probably name them
if you forced me to, but I could probably give you the Cubs' starting line
up a lot easier." -- Illinois Democratic Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich on the
presidential "team" the
Democrats are fielding

"Democracy is the fragile flower, and nowhere more fragile than in the
places that need it most. You could ask almost anyone in the Philippines (or
maybe even in California, if you could get a word in edgewise)." -- Wesley
Pruden

"A cautious political hack whose only strength is selling out to unions
and trial lawyers, Gov. Gray Davis is Bill Clinton without the conscience,
Al Gore without the charm." -- Rich Lowry

"The difference between Congress and drunken sailors is that drunken
sailors are spending their own money." -- Florida Republican Rep. Tom
Feeney

"The battle is not to the strong alone, it is to the vigilant and the
active and the brave. So said Patrick Henry in 1775. It was true then, and
it's true today." -- Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore

"[In a recently released audiotape, Saddam] Hussein praised his sons
for putting up a brave fight, noting that U.S. forces had surrounded their
compound with advanced weaponry, ground troops and warplanes. In case that
didn't work, U.S. forces were prepared to tell Janet Reno that a small Cuban
boy was inside the house." -- Ann Coulter

"Over in Liberia, President Charles Taylor resigned from office today and
left the country after handing power over to his Vice President, Moses Blah.
Vice President Blah? Wasn't that Al Gore's Secret Service name." -- Jay Leno

"The Ayatollah Khomeini's grandson Seyed Khomeini lauded America's war in
Iraq Monday and invited U.S. troops to bring freedom to Iran. This family catches
on fast. His grandfather the Ayatollah released all the U.S. hostages on January
20th, 1981, before Ronald Reagan could take his hand off the Bible and get
it over to the button." -- Argus Hamilton

web posted August 11, 2003

"If feminism deprived a woman of the myth of the man on the white charger
and the illusion that someday her prince would come, post-modern women are
looking for Mr. (Word) Perfect to pop up on the screen in front of them. The
damsel in distress suffers from data overload.... Computer dating is a reflection
of our cyberspace sensibilities. If cupid is a cursor, rejection is as close
as the delete key. Workaholics can have a conversation online without ever
leaving their terminals. This gives new meaning to 'office romance.' ...Caught
between the sexual revolution and high technology, courtship has come upon
hard times. Gone is the delicious face-to-face process of discovery. The seductive
tentativeness of romance is replaced by the deadly earnestness of seeking a
'relationship' -- love at the end of a search command.... If you feel the urge
to merge today, you simply go to the toolbar and click. Copy. Paste. Send." --
Suzanne Fields

"Foolish liberals who are trying to read the Second Amendment out of
the Constitution by claiming it's not an individual right or that it's too
much of a safety hazard don't see the danger of the big picture. They're courting
disaster by encouraging others to use this same means to eliminate portions
of the Constitution they don't like." -- Alan Dershowitz

"...[Leftists] think outside the box. For example, the Left's 'cherished
worldview' prohibits racial profiling. But after 9-11, liberals approached
the issue with an open mind. In recognition of the fact that 19 Arab immigrants
with the identical hair color, eye color and skin color, half of whom were
named Mohammed, had just murdered thousands of our fellow countrymen, [Leftists]
decided to keep prohibiting racial profiling." -- Ann Coulter

"Currently, only half of the adults who say they are Christian contend
that they are 'absolutely committed' to the Christian faith. Although that
number has remained stable since 1996, Barna indicated that a highly significant
outcome was how few Baby Busters claim to be absolutely committed to Christianity
(just 38%). 'That statistic is not only the lowest figure among any of the
four adult generations and way below the national norm,' explained Barna, 'but
it is consistent with the low levels of spiritual investment among young adults.
Although young people are very comfortable with faith matters and are open
to integrating faith into their life, the data portray Busters to be generally
disinterested in typical faith pursuits, long-accepted Christian beliefs and
long-standing religious events and institutions'." -- Barna Research

"Free men will never succumb to the ease or expedience of The Lie [of
terrorism] because we will never forget that when fighting evil, determination
is destiny." -- Tom DeLay

"In a free society, government has the responsibility of protecting us
from others, but not from ourselves." -- Walter Williams

"Americans are becoming increasingly addicted to government, and politicians
are becoming the dealers of the drug named 'dependency'." -- Rep. Jim
DeMint

"We need an opposition in wartime and peacetime to maintain balance in
our decision-making process. But it should be a 'loyal' opposition, not one
that's willing to sacrifice the nation's welfare merely to secure its ascendancy." --
William Goldcamp

"Is it fair to make a political issue of the impact that a litmus test
has on a religious group? Absolutely." -- Ramesh Ponnuru

"Federal spending is growing faster now than at any time since Lyndon
Johnson was in the White House launching the Great Society welfare state. In
just the past three years the budget has grown by $500 billion." -- Steve
Moore

"Most people outside of Washington know that when Uncle Sam steps
in to solve one problem, he usually only ends up creating two more." --
Edwin J. Feulner

"Christopher Hitchens, a decidedly non-credulous international journalist,
[reports] 'It's quite extraordinary to see the way American soldiers are welcomed.
To see the work that they're doing -- and not just rolling up these filthy
networks of Ba'athists and jihadists -- but building schools, opening soccer
stadiums, helping connect to the Internet, there is a really intelligent political
program as well as a very tough military one.' Because the daily lives of Iraqis
are improving and political stability is increasing, Wall Street Journal editor
Paul Gigot reports from Najaf that, 'The majority aren't worried we'll stay
too long; they're petrified we'll leave too soon'." -- The Washington
Times

"I opposed the war in Iraq because it was the wrong war at the wrong
time. Military intervention in Liberia represents an appropriate use of American
power." -- Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean

"California is the most progressive state in the union. I don't think
anyone here will have a problem with a smut peddler as governor." -- Larry
Flynt announcing his official candidacy for Governor of California

"My two cents' worth -- and I think it is the two cents' worth of everybody
who worked for the Clinton administration health care reform effort of 1993-1994
-- is that Hillary Rodham Clinton needs to be kept very far away from the White
House for the rest of her life." -- Berkeley economics professor J. Bradford
DeLong, who worked on Hillary-Care with Hillary Clinton

"Such human scum and bloodsucker is not entitled to take part in the
talks. We have decided not to consider him as an official of the U.S. administration
any longer nor to deal with him." -- North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman,
responding to U.S. Undersecretary of State John Bolton's remarks recently characterizing
DPRK leader Kim Jong Il as a "tyrannical dictator" and
citizenship there as "life is a hellish nightmare"

"I was not a Bill Clinton fan.... To me, Clinton's the sort of guy who
always volunteer to help you move, then when you've got four of you picking
up the sofa, he's the one who'll fake lifting." -- Dennis Miller

"Congress is in recess until after Labor Day, which means we're safe
for another month." -- Lyn Nofziger

"And any Democrat can outbid any Republican when it comes to compassioneering." --
John O'Sullivan

"The Democratic field this year looks like the Great Dismal Swamp, and
to call the pretenders to the throne the seven (or eight or nine) dwarfs is
to insult dwarfs. Even Al Gore is said to be thinking again about his rash
decision to abandon the field to the little people." -- Wesley Pruden

"In my humble opinion, the new expression for backing down from a fight
should be called 'frenching out'." -- Norman Liebmann

"As you may have heard, the U.S. is putting together a constitution for Iraq.
Why don't we just give them ours? Think about it -- it was written by very
smart people, it's served us well for over two hundred years, and besides,
we're not using it anymore." -- Jay Leno

"What amazes me is how many people are happy for Saddam to stay. They
ask why we don't get rid of [the Zimbabwean leader Robert] Mugabe, why not
the Burmese lot. Yes, let's get rid of them all. I don't because I can't, but
when you can you should." -- British PM Tony Blair, in a private statement
from the days leading up to the second Gulf War

web posted August 4, 2003

"Guess what? For the first time since the '50s, stay-at-home moms are
on the rise. Ten and a half million children have full-time stay-at-home moms,
up 13 percent over the last decade, according to the Census Bureau. ... A funny
thing seems to have happened on the way to the gender revolution. But what
exactly? Were not full-time mothers supposed to have disappeared by the 21st
century? Does not research show most children in day care to fine? Why would
any modern woman choose to stay home with her kids? ... I have nothing against
working mothers. I am one. But something in me rejoices to see the deeply countercultural
impulse of motherhood rising and winning over mere economic forces." --
Maggie Gallagher

"When most demands for censorship were coming from the right, ideas and
art were suppressed as shocking, obscene, or un-American. Now that campaigns
against
free speech are becoming a specialty of the Left, the instinct to suppress
is the same, but the rhetoric of the censors is drenched in concern about hate
and violence. ... Explaining free speech to the cultural Left is becoming harder
by the day. The rise of identity politics has produced the attitude that hurt
feelings and fear of hurtful expression trump free speech." -- John Leo

"Affirmative action is great for black millionaires, but it has done
little or nothing for most people in the ghetto. Most minority business owners
who get preferences in government contracts have net worths of more than $1
million." -- Thomas Sowell

"Howard Dean's 15 minutes of pop celebrity is just about up, John Kerry's
still trying to get the ketchup stains off his tie, Joe Lieberman can't remember
whether he's supposed to be a shark or a chicken, John Edwards has lost sight
of the ambulance, Bob Graham can't decide whether to write about the bacon
or the eggs he had for breakfast, Al Sharpton has lost his rhyming dictionary,
and nobody has seen Dick Gephardt since St. Louis quit making shoes. But it
doesn't matter. The real action begins early next year, when Bill and Hillary
ride at last to the rescue, but only of their own fortunes.... The notion that
Ma Clinton can wait until 2008 is nuts, as any pol who remembers his blue-back
arithmetic book could tell you. It's in the numbers. If a year in politics
is an epoch, four years is eternity." -- Wesley Pruden

"Our response to terrorism has changed, because George W. Bush is President
of the United States. For decades, terrorists have waged war against this country.
Now, under the leadership of President Bush, America is waging war against
them." -- U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney

"We are living in a
dangerous security environment. Adversaries are pursuing weapons that can
allow them
to kill not 3,000, as were killed on September 11th, but 30,000 or more.
And our job is to try to prevent that." -- U.S. Defense Secretary Donald
Rumsfeld

"Bob Hope made us laugh. He lifted our spirits. Bob Hope served
our nation. We will mourn the loss of a good man. Bob Hope served our nation
when he went to battlefields to entertain thousands of troops from different
generations.
We extend our prayers to his family. God bless his soul." -- U.S.
President George W. Bush

"The Right's kind of society cannot be
indefinitely sustained alongside the Left's kind of government." --
W. James Antle III

"Sen. Hillary Clinton's apocryphal memoir...reminds all serious students
of the Clinton saga that the Clintons never let you down. They are always true
to their nature. They lie." -- R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.

"Frankly I'm sick and tired of journalists who prefer to honor
a profession more than the country that makes that profession possible.
I believe strongly ... that you can be a good journalist and a good
American at the same time. The two are not mutually exclusive. I ask
just as penetrating questions and probe just as critical issues. But
I do so with a firm appreciation of the place from which I'm doing
it ... the United States of America." -- Neil Cavuto

"One trip through the government is acceptable for somebody in
journalism, but not two." -- NBC reporter Pete Williams, on why
he's turned down an offer to repeat as Pentagon spokesman

"The latest debate about the possibility that the Bush administration
ignored intelligence information that discounted reports of Iraq buying
nuclear material from Africa may be linked to the conservative intolerance
for ambiguity and need for closure." -- Jack Glaser, University
of California, Berkeley, one of four coauthors of a Psychological Bulletin
article entitled "Political Conservatism as Motivated by Social
Cognition," which erroneously likens U.S. conservatives to European
Nazis and fascists, then errs further in discovering common "psychological
factors" among these groups

"...[T]he national Democrat party seems to have lost its marbles.
...Just look at their presidential candidates: it's like they're lost
in a time warp. ...And Dennis Kucinich -- a long-time member of Congress
-- now calls for legislation -- I love this -- to ban 'mind control'
weapons in outer space. ...It makes you wonder if at their next presidential
debate, the Democrats are all going to show up wearing aluminum-foil
helmets to protect their brain waves from the mother ship!" --
House Majority Leader Tom DeLay

"The reward for information that leads to Saddam is $25 million. That's
what I love about our priorities -- we spend $25 million to get Saddam,
and the Republicans are spending $50 million to get rid of Gray Davis.
.... I'm not saying Gray Davis is on the run, but today he released
an audiotape on al-Jazeera from his underground bunker somewhere in
the Sacramento area." -- Jay Leno

"CIA Director George Tenet briefed a Senate panel ... about the current
situation in Iraq. He described how cash was being stolen and women
were being assaulted with impunity. Senators love to attend these continuing
education seminars." -- Argus Hamilton